NBC Sports Networks thread

Discussion in 'TV, Satellite & Radio' started by SirFozzie, Aug 8, 2015.

  1. QPR Kevin H

    QPR Kevin H BigSoccer Supporter

    May 23, 2001
    Silver Spring, MD
    Club:
    Queens Park Rangers FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Ireland Republic
    Yep it still lives. I found it on BT Sport's schedule this week.
    https://sport.bt.com/tv-guide-01363810618853?e=h7rwpk

    Tough to find online and VPN in to because the PL is on pay tv almost everywhere so sub still required no matter the IP location.
     
  2. NorthBank

    NorthBank Member+

    Arsenal; NYRB
    United States
    Mar 29, 2006
    Connecticut
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Thanks. Maybe we should start a petition to NBC to bring it back, even if only on Gold? How much could that honestly cost them??
     
  3. QPR Kevin H

    QPR Kevin H BigSoccer Supporter

    May 23, 2001
    Silver Spring, MD
    Club:
    Queens Park Rangers FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Ireland Republic
    :) I'm in. It really is a tidy highlights program. Only reason I can think that it's gone is they want to stress their new partner Sky programs like Goals on Sunday.
     
  4. NorthBank

    NorthBank Member+

    Arsenal; NYRB
    United States
    Mar 29, 2006
    Connecticut
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Yup that's probably right. The Sky partnership caught me a bit by surprise. Comcast bought Sky I guess. I kinda missed that.

    Anyway, do you know any effective way to petition NBC? I'm an email maven but I doubt that would be the method here. Is there a Change.org for media companies? ;)
     
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  5. Frankball

    Frankball Member+

    Sep 11, 2010
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Comcast actually acquired Sky Limited last year in a fierce bidding war against Walt Disney.

    The full details:
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_(company)?wprov=sfla1

    If you scroll up under the segment "Takeover by Comcast", you'll see the full story from the beginning.
     
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  6. QPR Kevin H

    QPR Kevin H BigSoccer Supporter

    May 23, 2001
    Silver Spring, MD
    Club:
    Queens Park Rangers FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Ireland Republic
    A good weekend of fixtures. Nice to see CNBC used again for a 10am game

    [​IMG]
     
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  7. EvanJ

    EvanJ Member+

    Manchester United
    United States
    Mar 30, 2004
    Club:
    Manchester United FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    #1607 EvanJ, Aug 16, 2019
    Last edited: Aug 16, 2019
    The weekly e-mail to PL Pass subscribers linked to The Analysis Show, which I hadn't heard of before. It's at http://stream.nbcsports.com/gold/premier-league?pid=223568 and lasts 56:28. At the beginning, it's like you're starting to watch in the middle because there's no introduction. I've watched 9:20 so far, and they're just focused on Raheem Sterling, so it may not talk about every game. https://www.nbcsports.com/gold/premier-league/schedule#full-event-replays said The Analysis Show is from yesterday. In addition to shows I knew about and The Analysis Show, on Tuesday there was The Headline Makers (which lasted 1:26:35), and today there was The Kelly & Wrighty Show (which lasted 1:32:15). The show is named after Kelly Cates (who I hadn't heard of) and Ian Wright.

    Man City vs. Tottenham is the big game, but there are others. Wolverhampton can make a statement if they beat Man United. Wolverhampton beat Pyunik Yerevan of Armenia 4-0 in each leg of Europa League Qualifying Round 3, but will have a tougher test in the Playoff Round against Torino. All three newly promoted clubs host clubs who were in the bottom half last season. Those are Aston Villa vs. Bournemouth, Norwich City vs. Newcastle United, and Sheffield United vs. Crystal Palace.
     
  8. BocaFan

    BocaFan Member+

    Aug 18, 2003
    Queens, NY
    No Sky Sports News today? :(
     
  9. QPR Kevin H

    QPR Kevin H BigSoccer Supporter

    May 23, 2001
    Silver Spring, MD
    Club:
    Queens Park Rangers FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Ireland Republic
    Kelly Cates is Kenny Dalglish's daughter and has been in UK football broadcasting for years. She's very pleasant and knows the game. Works for the BBC, Sky and PLP.
     
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  10. NorthBank

    NorthBank Member+

    Arsenal; NYRB
    United States
    Mar 29, 2006
    Connecticut
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    She's another sweetheart, who I know from Sky and BBC Radio. A breath of fresh air. And she has a little "thing" going on with Wrighty. ;)
     
  11. QPR Kevin H

    QPR Kevin H BigSoccer Supporter

    May 23, 2001
    Silver Spring, MD
    Club:
    Queens Park Rangers FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Ireland Republic
    Incredible how unreliable NBC's authenticated stream is via browser. I'm running it in Safari with a 230mbps hard connection and it still busts up after ten or so minutes. Don't have the problem with Gold, must be the bloated ad and match info displays.
     
  12. NorthBank

    NorthBank Member+

    Arsenal; NYRB
    United States
    Mar 29, 2006
    Connecticut
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Yeah I stream NBC stuff mostly on laptop/browser, and I get plenty of quality issues. Occasionally I use Roku and that does seem to be more solid.

    I just chalk this up to where streaming tech is in 2019. All services have issues, some more so than others. But I've given ESPN the best marks for quality.

    I just wish that they'd all agree on a user-friendly GUI player for their web streams! The fact that NBC doesn't have something like a skip-30-seconds button is SUPER annoying.
     
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  13. QPR Kevin H

    QPR Kevin H BigSoccer Supporter

    May 23, 2001
    Silver Spring, MD
    Club:
    Queens Park Rangers FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Ireland Republic
    Streaming tech is well beyond where NBC is here - with banner ads and too many graphics gumming up the page. The problem here is they're not offering a clean enough online product when the matches are on TV (they do with Gold because we've paid separately for an exclusively online sub) -- probably to get more people to watch on TV (since they know we have cable/sat subs that get us in). But I'm not able or willing to do that at work.

    NBC sucks here because they are owned by a cable TV company.
     
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  14. Redbullsnation2012

    May 26, 2010
    Club:
    Manchester United FC
    I don't ever bother with trying to watch stuff on the computer. I find it usually runs smoothly on a streaming device
     
  15. shanks909

    shanks909 Member

    Aug 4, 2005
    Chicago
    Club:
    Fulham FC
    Didn't renew Gold this season, was wondering if any improvements had been made to the video quality.

    I've got 3 Rokus, 2 Chromecasts, an Android box, and a newish high spec Windows 10 desktop pc, and I just wasn't happy with the jerky framerate.

    ESPN+, Netflix, Hulu, and Britbox all work great, but Gold just looked horrible on all devices and platforms.

    If NBC are going down the nickel and dime route, they need to up their streaming game!
     
  16. QPR Kevin H

    QPR Kevin H BigSoccer Supporter

    May 23, 2001
    Silver Spring, MD
    Club:
    Queens Park Rangers FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Ireland Republic
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  17. beInSchwartz

    beInSchwartz Member

    Aug 20, 2012
    Club:
    ABC Natal
    Sorry if it's been mentioned already, but they are putting a lot of content onto Youtube lately. Extended highlights, all of the goals of the round, and all sorts of other stuff.
     
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  18. QPR Kevin H

    QPR Kevin H BigSoccer Supporter

    May 23, 2001
    Silver Spring, MD
    Club:
    Queens Park Rangers FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Ireland Republic
    Not bad! (spoilers inside the video obvs)

     
  19. NorthBank

    NorthBank Member+

    Arsenal; NYRB
    United States
    Mar 29, 2006
    Connecticut
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Thanks. Tried to open that link to see the production of that show, but Alas the NBC sports app keeps telling me I am off-line from the Internet when that is incorrect.

    Coincidentally I was just writing a two star review of that very app. ;)
     
  20. NorthBank

    NorthBank Member+

    Arsenal; NYRB
    United States
    Mar 29, 2006
    Connecticut
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    p.s. to NBC...

    Why is your web streaming bifurcated between regular NBCSports and Gold webpages?

    When you're searching for upcoming matches, you should just have one single webpage that shows all matches... from the regular (TV) platform as well as those that are only available via Gold.

    If I'm not mistaken the Roku & iOS apps unified this a while back inside the NBCSports app, letting the Gold app die. So why hasn't the same been done for your web browser experience?
     
  21. Redbullsnation2012

    May 26, 2010
    Club:
    Manchester United FC
    Maybe it would proper to send to email to them. I don't think they read this board :D

    Here it is BTW support@nbcsportsgold.com
     
  22. daniloni

    daniloni Member+

    Tottenham Hotspur
    United States
    Jul 17, 2013
    Oakland, CA
    Club:
    Atlanta
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    You mean like what they already have on their website?

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  23. QPR Kevin H

    QPR Kevin H BigSoccer Supporter

    May 23, 2001
    Silver Spring, MD
    Club:
    Queens Park Rangers FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Ireland Republic
  24. NorthBank

    NorthBank Member+

    Arsenal; NYRB
    United States
    Mar 29, 2006
    Connecticut
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Sort of. When I wrote that post, I was on a separate Gold page that looks like the following. And it left me scratching my head as to why they still have this bifurcated system for browsers, while they seem to have done away with the separate Gold apps on my phone and Roku.

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  25. NorthBank

    NorthBank Member+

    Arsenal; NYRB
    United States
    Mar 29, 2006
    Connecticut
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I've tried the email approach in the past with NBC and gotten nowhere, no response. I concluded that there's a bigger chance they monitor BigSoccer than their own inboxes. That said, I realize that the chance of anything I say here will get considered by NBC managers is quite low.
     
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